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The White House has said Obama would veto Corker's bill, but aides to the president are increasingly alarmed at the prospect of the legislation receiving the two-thirds majority that overrides the presidential veto.

In addition, she notes that the law overrides all previous "protected areas" legislation.

Now a journalist on the Sunday Times, Jonathan Miller, has spotted a legal loophole in the Beeb's defences.He is refusing to pay his £112 on the grounds that the 1998 Human Rights Act's definition of freedom of expression overrides the law that enforces collection of the licence fee.

The commander appoints the ministers of defence, interior and border affairs and can declare a state of emergency that overrides much of the government apparatus.

In the aftermath of a disaster, only the first of these questions matters: when so many are in such need, the humanitarian imperative overrides qualms about giving handouts to a repugnant regime.

The justices must decide whether citizens' right to have their contracts respected overrides the government's obligation to protect the currency.Most legal scholars side with the banks.

But the way that the A380 project is being managed establishes a new way of working that overrides the old national, work-sharing traditions.Transnational groups have been set up to focus on various aspects of the new aircraft's production.

Vivid language often overrides basic arithmetic.Some findings are downright peculiar.

A few weeks ago, it was rumoured to be talking to its arch-rival, Nasdaq, about a merger; but the talks seem to have come to nothing.The mergers have been guided by the idea that technology overrides geography.

He favours a Libyan-Egyptian peace plan, which overrides the south's right to secede, without putting the Islamic state, the focal point for the mainly Christian south's discontent, up for negotiation.The rebels control, and try to administer, 80% of the south.

Accounting rules outside America lean more towards principles, particularly in Britain, where the importance of providing a "true and fair" view of a company's performance overrides specific rules.Fights over new accounting standards do not usually grab headlines.

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